Baked Chocolate-Peanut Butter Doughnuts

These no-fry doughnuts are super chocolatey--a perfect match for your morning joe. For a twist, you can swap chocolate-hazelnut spread for the peanut butter in the glaze and top with finely chopped toasted hazelnuts.

Baklava Monkey Bread

This clever mash-up of the classic Mediterranean phyllo pastry and an ooey-gooey Midwest potluck favorite has a lot of steps and ingredients, but you can start it a day ahead. It's a sticky, worth-the-trouble showstopper.

Pick-a-Flavor Scones

Choose the base recipe for Sour Cream Scones, or try a flavor variation. Then adapt the recipe to your schedule. Imagine having ready-to-bake scones in the freezer. Pull out a few for brunch with friends, or just one for a solo Sunday afternoon treat.

Jam Crumb Cake

Spreadable fruit jam ribbons through this buttery crumb cake, sinking here and there for a marbled look. A generous crumb topping adds more flavor. Choose your favorite jam, strawberry or raspberry, for the recipe.

Cinnamon Rolls

In winter, let the yeast dough rise in your unheated oven. The rolls will rise best at a temperature between 80° and 85° . The recipe, with its heady aroma of yeast and spice, comes from the Patchwork Quilt Country Inn near Middlebury, Indiana.

Kate's Blue-Ribbon Coffee Cake

Lyndy Ireland cooks this coffee cake for her guests at Triangle Ranch in western South Dakota. "Shingle two slices dusted with confectioner's sugar beside the entree and not a crumb will be left," Lyndy says. It gets even better as you store it, covered, at room temperature.

Chocolate-Orange Yeasted Waffles

It may seem odd to leave waffle batter out overnight, but it's perfectly safe and helps develop a yeasty flavor. The method was made famous in Marion Cunningham's The Breakfast Book. If you don't fancy chocolate, orange and anise, flavor the waffles differently—or take 'em plain.